> We're using our own non-standard and possibly ill-advised TLD, which is .tpl — short for The Promised LAN.

Not ill advised at all. The internet was never meant to be centralized; more should be done to resist the ICANN hegemony. The replacement for manually swapping host file entries ought to have been something that placed control over identity in the hands of the individual instead of selling it.

True but when ICANN decides .tpl is a new TLD owned by some corporation, what's your next move?